Towering amp stacks are rapidly going the way of the dodo, but players with pedalboard amps and micro-heads are looking for compact and lightweight speaker solutions. Honeyboy might just have the answer.
A single watt of output power may seem better suited to headphones than headlining, but the Blues King 8 is a lot more practical than you might expect.
If you’re Hughes & Kettner, there’s only one way to improve on a programmable 200-watt amp with valve-emulating analogue tone and on-board effects: turn it into a stompbox.
Promising classic Blackface tones, impulse response direct outputs, handy switchable power options and around a 50 per cent reduction in weight, does Fender’s Tone Master series spell the end for the humble valve amp?